weather-report-skills

Security checks across static analysis, malware telemetry, and agentic risk

Overview

This weather-formatting skill appears benign; it fetches public weather data from wttr.in and formats it, with no credentials, persistence, or file changes shown.

This skill is reasonable for formatting weather reports. Before installing, note that it expects local command-line tools and sends a request to wttr.in, currently for Tianjin; adjust the endpoint/location if you need a different city or provider.

Static analysis

No static analysis findings were reported for this release.

VirusTotal

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Risk analysis

Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.

What this means

A weather request may contact wttr.in and reveal the request source IP and requested location to that service.

Why it was flagged

This tells the agent to invoke curl and retrieve data from the external wttr.in weather service. That is expected for a weather-report skill, but it is still a network/tool action users should be aware of.

Skill content
使用 `curl -s "wttr.in/Tianjin?format=j1"` 获取天气数据
Recommendation

Use only if you are comfortable with wttr.in being queried; prefer an explicit HTTPS URL and confirm or adjust the hardcoded Tianjin location if needed.

What this means

The skill may fail or behave differently on systems without these tools, even though no runtime requirements are listed.

Why it was flagged

The reference instructions rely on date, curl, and python3 even though the registry requirements declare no required binaries. These are common and purpose-aligned tools, but the dependency disclosure is incomplete.

Skill content
获取当前时间:`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'` ... `curl -s "wttr.in/Tianjin?format=j1" | python3 -c "`
Recommendation

Declare curl, date, and python3 as expected runtime tools, or provide a no-shell alternative for fetching and parsing weather data.